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Eastwinds launch its second album in The Ellington Jazz Club June 12th. 2o18There really is nothing like Eastwinds in Perth, or beyond: multicultural roots/jazz/folk with influences from the Baltic to Persia, driving beat-box didgeridoo and a free spirit of improvisation.WAM SOTY winners (World category) 2016 and nominees for best band, 2017: Help them celebrate the North-of-the-River launch of Confluence.This event will be a sublime musical experience - don't miss it!If Australian world music had a name, it would be Eastwinds...Get your tickets HERE

WINNERS of the World Music section of the WAM Song of the Year 2016﻿If Australian multicultural music has name, it's EastwindsFrom the Balkans to the Baltic, Australia to Norway, Eastwinds' music will take you to a World tour of melodies and rhythm.

​Fremantle's very own Gypsy Tapas restaurant has kindly invited Eastwinds to share the worldly tunes with you every 4th Friday of the month! Book a table now and don't miss out on the sensational food and the company of Eastwinds!

Bands are often described as unique combinations of this and that, but there is really is nothing quite like Eastwinds. The music is what you get when you mix a percussion and woodwind virtuoso from Iran, a golden-voiced improvising singer from Estonia on the shores of the Baltic, an astonishing beatboxing didgeridoo player from Japan, a veteran multi-string instrumentalist and former festival director from England and an equally veteran Australian player and creator of uncountable reed and woodwind instruments including, on rare special occasions, the infamous surgical glove bagpipes. Throw in some hot percussion, a vast global range of musical knowledge and interests, an infectious love of adventurous improvising, the haunting Persian ney (the end blown flute beloved of Iranian dentists) and some truly shocking puns and you have Eastwinds.The music ranges through jazz-inflected Norwegian lullabies, Estonian runic chants with a distinct Persian groove, didge-driven Turkish belly dance tunes, Jewish wedding dance tunes over jaw-harp drones and meandering musical journeys that might start with an Irish jig, develop through a rocked-out percussion jam, pay a passing visit to Paul Simon and end up somewhere in the Kasbah. If that all sounds a bit unpredictable, it is, especially to the band, who commonly have no clue where it’s actually all going to end up. It’s a thoroughly joyful and inventive musical experiment that has no particular end in sight other than taking the audience somewhere they haven’t been before and bringing them back happy.

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Hop on to a ride of worldly culture and entertainment!Highly recommended for people with an itch for a tasty cultural experience!